The Lightning have lost their starting goaltender Ben Bishop to injury for what could be a significant amount of time.
Lightning goaltender stretchered off the ice after knee injury
Tampa Bay could be without its starting netminder for a while after this play in Game 1. X-rays were negative.
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Trying to make a mad scramble back into his crease on a play late in the first period of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final, Bishop looked to have tweaked something in his left knee while falling over.
The injury came just moments after Kris Letang was knocked out of the game -- though Letang later returned after a high hit. A stretcher was brought out to help Bishop off the ice after the netminder could not get up on his own.
Backup Andrei Vasilevskiy has taken Bishop's place in net for the Lightning. During last year's playoffs, Bishop injured his groin during Tampa Bay's Stanley Cup Final run.
Cooper on Bishop injury: "He had x-rays done and everything came back negative, so we're hoping for the best." #TBLightning
— Bryan Burns (@BBurnsNHL) May 14, 2016
More from Cooper on Bishop injury: "He's definitely hurt but there's nothing structurally wrong. That was a big relief." #TBLightning
— Bryan Burns (@BBurnsNHL) May 14, 2016
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